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financial arrangements of the bill, the functions assigned to the Lord Lieutenant, the relation of the judges to the new Irish Government, the associated scheme of land purchase-these and other things are matters for subsequent adjustment. The essence of the measure, its vital principle—its second-reading principle, so to speak-lies in the relations which it is proposed to establish between the Irish Legislative Body and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. If this can be satisfactorily arranged, the rest will be of comparatively easy arrangement in Committee. It is strongly to be desired that the reconsideration of the question of Irish representation in the Imperial Parliament, which Mr. Gladstone has half promised, will lead to the renewal of the one vital objection to a scheme inspired by the most generous purpose, and capable of forming a precedent for the further extension of the system of Home Rule within the United Kingdom.

FRANK H. HILL.

The Editor of THE NINETEENTH CENTURY cannot undertake

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WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary,

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. PRINTERS, NEW-STREET SQUARE, LONDON.

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